so we'll have to put stacy keach off until then. but mary dearborn, the awe nor a few book called ernest hemingway. she is note for having a streetw in chicago named after her, dearborn. [laughter] >> but she is also a particularly important today because this is the first bioin 15 years, the first written by a woman, the first to explore the causes -- [applause] -- the era of women, isn't it? there you are. that's the peg. mary, we are all sun fans. wewas -- i lived in oak park, so hemingway and frank lloyd writhe were our two heroes. there has been so much written, it's look the guy telling the old joke. tell me number two. or tell me number three. and they all laugh. but what i would like to do, you have such detail about these heroic moments that we're familiar with. i'd like to ask those, but also some new revelations about his mental illness, suicide, and -- but we'll kind of course the river to that end. can you tell us a little bit about this rather mild upbringing at oak park river high school. he was -- yeah, he was -- it'

stacy keach will not be with us today. on opening night, a one-man show about ernest hemingway, last week, i believe, he had a heart attack on the stage. it was one of those strange things that just, in his words, created a fog in which he didn't know where he was in the play, and for 50 minutes being old school and the tough hemingway kind of character, he plowed through trying to find himself. his good friend, director bob folds, when they came and ended the show, he went to the hospital and was diagnosed with a mild stroke. but he is find now. fine now. and vows to come back in 2018. so we'll have to put stacy keach off til then. but mary dearborn is the author of a a new book called "ernest hemingway," what else? she is noted for having a street in chicago named after her, dearborn. [laughter] [applause] but she was also particularly important today because this is the first bio in 15 years, the first written by a woman, the first to explore -- [applause] >> yeah. [laughter] [applause] >> it's the era of women, isn't i